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What (who) is millefleurs - definition
millefleurs
['milfl?:]
¦ noun a pattern of flowers and leaves used especially in tapestry and on porcelain.
Origin
C19: Fr., lit. 'a thousand flowers'.
Millefleur
![Sir Edward Burne-Jones' frontispiece to ''[[The Wood Beyond the World]]'' (Kelmscott Press, 1894)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The wood beyond the world.jpg?width=200 "Sir Edward Burne-Jones' frontispiece to ''[[The Wood Beyond the World]]'' (Kelmscott Press, 1894)")
![''À mon seul désir'', from the set ''[[The Lady and the Unicorn]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(Toulouse) Mon seul désir (La Dame à la licorne) - Musée de Cluny Paris.jpg?width=200 "''À mon seul désir'', from the set ''[[The Lady and the Unicorn]]''")
![Detail of one of the set ''[[The Lady and the Unicorn]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cluny-Dame à la licorne-Detail 16.JPG?width=200 "Detail of one of the set ''[[The Lady and the Unicorn]]''")
![Millefleurs in a heraldic tapestry for the [[Bishop of Salzburg]], after 1519](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tapisserie Millefiori Salzburg Museum.jpg?width=200 "Millefleurs in a heraldic tapestry for the [[Bishop of Salzburg]], after 1519")
![''The Adoration of the Magi'' woven by [[Morris & Co]] in the late 1800s.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adoration of the Magi Tapestry.png?width=200 "''The Adoration of the Magi'' woven by [[Morris & Co]] in the late 1800s.")
![Millefleur 'Star-Lattice' carpet, 17th–early 18th century Mughal India, [[Christie's]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Millefleur 'Star-Lattice' carpet, 17th-early 18th century Mughal India, Christie's.jpg?width=200 "Millefleur 'Star-Lattice' carpet, 17th–early 18th century Mughal India, [[Christie's]]")
BACKGROUND PATTERN OF MANY DIFFERENT SMALL FLOWERS AND PLANTS
Millefleur tapestry; Mille-fleurs; Mille-fleur; Verdure tapestry
Millefleur, millefleurs or mille-fleur (French mille-fleurs, literally "thousand flowers") refers to a background style of many different small flowers and plants, usually shown on a green ground, as though growing in grass. It is essentially restricted to European tapestry during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1550, but mainly about 1480–1520.
Examples of use of millefleurs
1. Sinuous Persian motifs and millefleurs supplanted the traditional simplicity and geometry of Kanchipuram motifs.